Asterisk (disambiguation)
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- Not to be confused with Asterix (disambiguation).
Asterisk is the star-shaped punctuation symbol (*), typed using Shift+8 on most English-language computer keyboards.
Asterisk may also refer to:
- * (haplogroup) - a designation that indicates that one belongs to a haplogroup, but not to a known subclade
- * - a common wildcard character that substitutes for other letters
- Asterisk (PBX) - an open source telephone system
- asterism - a group of three asterisks arranged in a triangular formation
- * ~Asterisk~ - a song by the Japanese band Orange Range.
- * - used on internet forums to mean "everything else." For example, "Mr. Show > *" means "Mr. Show is greater than all other shows."